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Post-Digital Analysis

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Act II Data­base Aes­thet­ics
—Project: Group-Curating (components)

     

    M 20-Oct                Read/Discuss: Cramer, “Post-Digital Aes­thet­ics” e-permanent   
      — also see video lec­ture below

      » Focus/Discuss (con­tin­ued top­ics):   dis­ci­pli­nary con­ven­tions, dis­course com­mu­ni­ties, rhetor­i­cal aware­ness
       
      — sites shown in class:

    • Colos­sal (“art, design, and visual culture”)
    • Hyper­al­ler­gic (“Sen­si­tive to Art & its Discontents”)

     
     
    W 22-Oct                Activ­ity: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis warm-up (Due S 25-Oct)

     

  • Prepa­ra­tion: choose & view/examine a visual arts web­site (pro­fes­sional pub­li­ca­tion)
    like Colos­sal & Hyper­al­ler­gic — post exam­ple sug­ges­tions in com­ments below (e.g. sources of cura­tion con­tent thus far?)

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    excerpts from Short Guide to Writ­ing About Art (Bar­net)

     
    » Blog Entry: Rhet. Analy­sis warm-up (first-take: notes on 2–3 categories/aspects)
     

     
    F 24-Oct                  Focus: Group curat­ing materials/examples

    • Con­tin­ued dis­cus­sion: Net­work Rhetoric, new con­ven­tions, analysis

     
     
    Due (S 25-Oct) Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis (Assign­ment Prompt)

    • 10 points; 500–700 words (of analy­sis ideas, omit­ting process)
    • optional: include media, for instance screen-capture image
      (rec­om­mended for any unique design ele­ment, or fea­ture that might be inef­fi­cient to describe in text)

     
     


    Art­Fo­rum– Flo­rian Cramer Post Dig­i­tal Aes­thet­ics from Nancy Mauro-Flude on Vimeo.


     
    Con­tinue read­ing →

    Material Transitions

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    Act II Data­base Aes­thet­ics — Project: Group-Curating (components)

     
     
    M 06-Oct   Activity/Focus: Group Work (resume/increase)

      • Group Activity/Tasks: find/generate audi­ence (share pages, social net­works?)
        — iden­tify mod­els (sites, blogs, groups) to follow

      • Refine/update approach (and/or cura­tory statement?)
      » Mini-lecture: “Tech­no­log­i­cal (Media-focused)” Art”?
      — Discuss/focus: “Data­base Aesthetics”

     

     
    W 08-Oct   Read/Discuss: Parikka, “Cir­cuit Bend­ing Media Archae­ol­ogy into an Art Method” Leonardo (2012)

      » Dis­cuss: Research + Prospec­tive Art Praxis (appli­ca­tion, inno­va­tion, inven­tion?)
      — exam­ple (from Parikka): “zom­bie media” (arch. research) & “circuit-bending” art


    » PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios: “Will 3D Print­ing Change the World?” (2013)


     

     
     
    F 10-Oct   Focus: Group curat­ing — view sites & dis­cuss materials/examples

    • Dis­cuss “cura­tion” & cri­tique (bring exam­ples of form)

                                  
     
    Blog entry: project reflection:

      » insights about field (schol­ar­ship = dis­course com­mu­nity) and your own artis­tic prac­tice, from com­pos­ing essay
      — spec­u­late poten­tial praxis (applied the­ory) or innovation?

     
     
    » Optional Exer­cise — extra credit (Due S 10/12): Cri­tique

      Net­work econ­omy skills: 250 words → 25 words → 140 char­ac­ters → image

     
     
     

    Audience

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    » “Which ulti­mately does more good—an arti­cle or mono­graph that is read by 20 or 30 peo­ple in a very nar­row field, or a blog post on a topic of inter­est to many (such as grad­ing stan­dards or tenure require­ments) that is read by 200,000?

    What if the post spurs hun­dreds of com­ments, is debated pub­licly in fac­ulty lounges and class­rooms, and gets picked up by news­pa­pers and Web sites across the country—in other words, it helps to shape the national debate over some hot-button issue? What is it worth then?”

    What’s a Blog Post Worth?” By Rob Jenk­ins
    August 8, 2013, 1:47 pm
    The Chron­i­cle of Higher Education